Adam M Skerpan
Summary
Strategic Talent Acquisition professional and product-adjacent operator with expertise in sourcing, employer branding, and candidate experience across global markets. As sole Talent Sourcer for the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Poland, I partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and the Bold.pro Product team to improve hiring workflows and marketplace experiences. I've led initiatives including a Candidate Experience Portal, Employee Ambassador Program (BOLD Voices), and cross-functional collaboration with Product and Employer Branding to enhance recruiting tools, employer workflows, and engagement strategies. I specialize in translating stakeholder feedback into actionable improvements across systems, processes, and user experience. Passionate about product-driven thinking, I focus on optimizing workflows, improving candidate and employer experiences, and building scalable recruiting solutions.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Talent Sourcer | Product Strategy Partner, Bold.pro
BOLD
04.2023 - Current
- Talent Acquisition & Cross-Functional Execution (Core Role)
- Sole Talent Sourcer supporting U.S., Puerto Rico, and Poland, partnering with 10 recruiters across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, and Corporate Development.
- Operate as a cross-functional coordinator across recruiters, hiring managers, and global stakeholders to align priorities and execute high-volume hiring needs.
- Led global contract hiring sprints across South America, Europe, and APAC, improving alignment and accelerating time-to-fill.
- Partnered with Employer Branding to refine EVP, rebrand candidate messaging, and facilitate hiring manager workshops on candidate experience and interview quality.
- Product Strategy & Marketplace Work (Bold.pro Partnership)
- Talent Acquisition SME embedded with the Bold.pro Product team, translating employer and recruiter feedback into insights that inform marketplace, search, and engagement improvements.
- Lead employer discovery sessions focused on subscriptions, search/Boolean logic, filters, verification, and candidate discovery, synthesizing insights into product recommendations.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, SEO, Marketing, and Employer Branding on marketplace growth initiatives, programmatic pages, and ecosystem expansion.
- Conduct competitive research across job boards and talent marketplaces to identify feature gaps, monetization opportunities, and user experience improvements.
- Evaluate and pilot AI recruiting and sourcing tools (Pin, Juicebox, Gem AI) to inform workflow optimization and product direction.
Senior Recruiter, Candidate Engagement
The Walt Disney Company
10.2022 - 03.2023
- Built and maintained relationships with Director - VP level and above candidates for executive positions in various HR, Marketing, and GTM departments.
- Conducted market analysis and built out organizational structures of competitors through networking and research.
- Assisted in the creation and implementation of the sourcing and recruitment strategy for priority roles for the new ILM Studio located in Mumbai, India.
- Championed a 'Sourcing Up-Skilling Series' project that taught advanced sourcing skills and methods to recruiters and junior level sourcers on different teams within the TA team.
- Identified a need for leveling-up the candidate experience and employer brand, created a mock candidate portal, and presented to (and got the approval from) TA leadership to start the implementation process for the entire organization.
- Created a sentiment analysis model analyzing how Twitter users feel about Disney Careers and interviewing at Disney using Python.
- Position impacted by layoffs
Lead, Talent Sourcing
Shopify
02.2022 - 07.2022
- Managed a team of five Talent Sourcers supporting Data Science and Engineering organizations.
- Utilized hiring metrics and data insights to prioritize pipeline investments and resource allocation.
- Led a cross-functional hiring sprint involving 15 sourcers that generated 3,200 candidate engagements and resulted in more than 10 hires.
- Partnered on onboarding, process improvements, and implementation of new tools and workflows.
- Position impacted by layoffs
Senior Talent Sourcer
Shopify
02.2021 - 02.2022
- Supported the implementation and enterprise rollout of Gem CRM, serving as an SME and establishing adoption best practices.
- Built sourcing strategies for highly technical Director and VP-level hiring initiatives.
- Mentored junior team members and developed repeatable sourcing methodologies and training programs.
- Partnered on creation and implementation of sourcing processes and candidate evaluation frameworks.
Senior Recruiter, Strategic Candidate Development
Agero, Inc.
08.2017 - 12.2020
- Found and engaged passive candidates through various open web searches, social media websites, college and university job boards, and other recruitment resources to fill open roles across all departments.
- Completed full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and hiring candidates across multiple departments and levels.
- Revamped the Employee Referral Program for both Agero's corporate office as well as our 3 contact centers, including making it easier for employees to submit referrals.
- Completed competitive/market analysis and create candidate 'ecosystems' for targeted recruiting campaigns and to help educate internal partners understand the candidate market.
Lead Recruitment Specialist
Seven Step RPO
03.2013 - 08.2017
- Found and engaged passive candidates for Fortune 500 companies through various open web searches, social media websites, college and university job boards, and other recruitment resources.
- Built, ran, and analyzed different reports to find different trends to make hiring efforts become more efficient.
- Built and managed a Talent Community exceeding 100,000 members.
- Analyzed campaign performance, engagement metrics, and conversion data to optimize recruiting strategies and improve KPIs.
- Improved SEO performance of job descriptions and managed PPC job advertising budgets.
- Increased employer brand awareness through social media strategy and digital engagement initiatives.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Sports Management
Endicott College
Python Programming - undefined
General Assembly
HR Analyst Certification - undefined
AIHR Academy
HR Analytics Lead Certification - undefined
AIHR Academy
Skills
- Talent strategy
- Sourcing execution
- End-to-end recruitment
- Marketplace and recruiting systems thinking
- Improving workflows
- Candidate experience
- Employer usability
- Cross-functional stakeholder management
- Behavioral interviewing
- Competency-based interviewing
- Sourcing strategy
- Job boards
- Social platforms
- Referrals
- Direct sourcing
- Passive talent engagement
- ATS
- Greenhouse
- Avature
- Bullhorn
- SuccessFactors
- Taleo
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- LinkedIn Talent Insights
- Gem
- Workflow optimization
- AI recruiting tools
- Recruiting technology evaluation
- Data-informed recruiting
- Dashboards
- Automation
- Process improvements
- Efficiency
- Speed-to-hire
Specialties And Technical Skills
- Talent strategy, sourcing execution, and end-to-end recruitment across Technology, Product, Marketing, Design, Finance, GTM, and Corporate Development
- Marketplace and recruiting systems thinking with a focus on improving workflows, candidate experience, and employer usability
- Cross-functional stakeholder management across Product, Engineering, Employer Branding, and Recruiting leadership
- Behavioral and competency-based interviewing with a focus on role alignment and candidate evaluation
- Sourcing strategy across job boards, social platforms, referrals, and direct sourcing for passive talent engagement
- ATS and recruiting systems: Greenhouse, Avature, Bullhorn, SuccessFactors, Taleo
- Advanced user of LinkedIn, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Talent Insights, and Gem for passive-to-active candidate conversion
- Exposure to product-adjacent work, including workflow optimization, AI recruiting tools, and recruiting technology evaluation
- Data-informed recruiting using dashboards, automation, and process improvements to increase efficiency and speed-to-hire
Timeline
Senior Talent Sourcer | Product Strategy Partner, Bold.pro
BOLD
04.2023 - Current
Senior Recruiter, Candidate Engagement
The Walt Disney Company
10.2022 - 03.2023
Lead, Talent Sourcing
Shopify
02.2022 - 07.2022
Senior Talent Sourcer
Shopify
02.2021 - 02.2022
Senior Recruiter, Strategic Candidate Development
Agero, Inc.
08.2017 - 12.2020
Lead Recruitment Specialist
Seven Step RPO
03.2013 - 08.2017
Bachelor's Degree - Sports Management
Endicott College
Python Programming - undefined
General Assembly
HR Analyst Certification - undefined
AIHR Academy
HR Analytics Lead Certification - undefined
AIHR Academy